[PATCHv2 0/3] nvme-tcp: improve scalability

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 7/16/24 08:31, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> 
> 
> On 08/07/2024 10:10, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> for workloads with a lot of controllers we run into workqueue contention,
>> where the single workqueue is not able to service requests fast enough,
>> leading to spurious I/O errors and connect resets during high load.
>> This patchset improves the situation by improve the fairness between
>> rx and tx scheduling, introducing per-controller workqueues,
>> and distribute the load accoring to the blk-mq cpu mapping.
>> With this we reduce the spurious I/O errors and improve the overall
>> performance for highly contended workloads.
>>
>> All performance number are derived from the 'tiobench-example.fio'
>> sample from the fio sources, running on a 96 core machine with one
>> subsystem and two paths, each path exposing 32 queues.
>> Backend is nvmet using an Intel DC P3700 NVMe SSD.
>>
>> Changes to the initial submission:
>> - Make the changes independent from the 'wq_unbound' parameter
>> - Drop changes to the workqueue
>> - Add patch to improve rx/tx fairness
> 
> Hey Hannes, were you able to make progress here?
> Thought I'd ask...

Oh, well. Things are going back and forth, and occasionally sideways.
But I'm having something resembling a patchset; most of it is
actually debugging stuff allowing to analyse latencies.
Currently trying to get some performance numbers, but should be ready
shortly.

Cheers,

Hannes
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